If you decide on mission furniture, then wooden flooring would look good, with plain or lightly patterned rugs to absorb sound and prevent that reverberation or booming you can get with all wood flooring and plain walls. Curtains or drapes, wallpaper and rugs absorb sound waves, so that you can't hear everyone talking anywhere in the house.

With these types of designs typically the entire room design is focused on the media equipment and the seating area.

You have no need to travel to your local shopping mall, and there are no apparent benefits in doing so other than being able to see the furniture in the flesh, so to speak. By shopping online you normally get to see a firm's entire stock, which you certainly cannot do in a space-restricted mall store.

You could purchase originals or prints of modern art abstract or sketches in black and white and marry these with lighting consisting of modern shades over brushed or polished aluminum lamps - pr stainless steel if your prefer.

When choosing living furniture, most people will choose the furniture they like irrespective of the décor or the general furnishings of the room. They may see a lovely sofa with chairs to match, or a sectional unit that they can switch around as the mood takes them. However, few take the whole look of the room into consideration, or take a holistic view of furnishing their living room.

There are many other accent pieces that can be use to complement your living room furniture, and also add to the look of the room, or even its theme if you prefer to have themed rooms. Ignoring the obvious Egyptian statues, African masks and Native American artifacts for the more obvious themes, those preferring more modern themes can use chess sets and tables, figurines, lamps, trays and boxes to accentuate the decor of their living rooms.